Borepatch

Randal emails to point out that he's started a Substack .  It's pretty interesting.  Here's an example about trade unions : For ...

This quote (and the post it is from) makes no mention of the pilots, and was written from the point of view of the working man.  But it expl...

Pretty much every word here is a rebuke to social media hatemongering and what passes as "States craft" in this degraded age.  

I often say that classical music is alive and well, it's just decamped from the symphony hall to the movie theater.  Today's composi...

Not original, or controversial. But the Queen of the World and I went to Monticello and holy cow, the man was a genius. If you get a ch...

He's been blogging for 15 (!) years .  Wow. He's been a daily read for me for maybe ten years now.  If you don't follow him, y...

From 1990. You're welcome.

"Just" the receptionist : [Time] magazine had assigned a reporter named Virginia Bennett to find out about “automation in Ameri...

This has just shot up to the very top of my "must read" list : This week, HarperCollins announced that a long-awaited JRR Tolkie...

Hang out with people smarter than you.  Shut your pie hole.  Listen.  Stifle the urge to be sarcastic, and listen . Repeat until you th...

Sabra muses on the psychology of poverty : You may have seen a news story circulating about how poverty makes you stupid .  It's not ...

The word "polymath", while accurate, falls short of describing him.  The term "Renaissance Man", while accurate, also fa...

Old NFO has a hilarious post about the idiosyncrasies of the English language : You think English is easy?? I think a retired English tea...

I was 15.  We were getting out of Vietnam.  I was - as most teenagers do - was learning how to think as an adult, and not as a child.  On th...

This might actually work .  Two really good ideas for stopping the outflow of citizens from Detroit, protecting the city's tax base, and...

So this doesn't really do much for me.  But there sure are a bunch of places where it would be a help.

Sabra muses on the Rolling Stone's glam cover shot of Jahar Tsarnaev and reminds me why I read her every day : The problem seems to be...

Or maybe this quarter, or this year .  I don't know what else to add, other than that these people will need computer and network securi...

This show had a huge influence on me, back when I was a teenager.  Readers with a good memory* will remember that I once posted on Martianu...